Quotes and Sayings About Logic

We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek Him.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Needs #Logic #Found

Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
-- Alan Perlis

#Analysis #Logic #Cases

The best magic always results from ecstasies of logic.
-- Alban Berg

#Magic #Logic #Results

It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.
-- Albert Camus

#Impossible #Logic #Bitter

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
-- Albert Camus

#Life #Passion #Logic

Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.
-- Albert Camus

#Forever #Psychology #Logic

There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it.
-- Albert Camus

#Hands #Essentials #Logic

A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic.
-- Albert Camus

#Acting #Nazism #Logic

The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov must therefore kill himself to become god. That logic is absurd, but it is what is needed.
-- Albert Camus

#Doe #Logic #Classic

The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Majority #Logic #Reason

There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them, but most of them I have not read yet. I'll read them when they call me from the shelf.
-- Aleksandar Hemon

#Book #Reading #Logic

Chess is not only knowledge and logic
-- Alexander Alekhine

#Chess #Logic

Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.
-- Alexander Smith

#Logic #Pleasure #Footsteps

Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.
-- Alexis Carrel

#Men #Logic

Mathematics and logic have been proved to be one; a fact from which it seems to follow that mathematics may successfully deal with non-quantitative problems in a much broader sense than was suspected to be possible.
-- Alfred Korzybski

#May #Facts #Logic

Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Radicalism #Logic #Desperation

Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable; they are of instinct and not of reason.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Mind #Religion #Logic

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form
-- Anish Kapoor

#Logic #Kind #Form

There is, then, a logical priority about the arrangements, and logic has nothing to do with time.
-- Anthony Stafford Beer

#Priorities #Logic #Logical

Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
-- Anton Chekhov

#Ethics #Logic #Accomplished

The difference between a poet and a philosopher is that the poet sees logically and describes basically the beauty whereas the philosopher defines the basics and shows the beauty of logics.
-- Anuj

#Differences #Philosopher #Logic

Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of all to have a certain knowledge of, and which belong to no distinct science. Wherefore all men in some way participate of both; since all, to a certain extent, attempt, as well to sift, as to maintain an argument; as well to defend themselves, as to impeach.
-- Aristotle

#Men #Way #Logic

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Common #Logic #Crime

Every science that has thriven has thriven upon its own symbols: logic, the only science which is admitted to have made no improvements in century after century, is the only one which has grown no symbols.
-- Augustus De Morgan

#Logic #Improvement #Century

Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics.
-- Augustus De Morgan

#Care #Logic #Mathematics

Logic can provide you with various facts and figures but can't comprehend them in their totality.
-- Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal

#Thinking #Facts #Logic

A scientist is only a human being, a particle in the whole universe. How can the observations and logic of a particle measure the life and size of a phenomenon that is limitless?
-- Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal

#Size #Logic #Limitless

you are never called upon to prove a negative. that's a law of logic.
-- Ayn Rand

#Law #Negative #Logic

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
-- Beatrice Webb

#Love #Logic #Cases

I tended to be more a romantic than a realist, and chose blind faith over cold logic.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick

#Logic #Cold #Blind